The Rounds Table

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we interview Dr. Donald Arnold, a McMaster University professor and hematologist who is leading the CONCOR-1 trial. The CONvalescent Plasma for COVID-19 Research Trial (CONCOR-1), is a North American clinical trial designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 convalescent plasma as a therapy for patients with COVID-19 resp...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we interviewed Dr. Michelle Sholzberg to discuss coagulopathy associated with COVID-19. Dr. Sholzberg is a clinical hematologist with a focus on bleeding and is the Medical Director of the Coagulation Laboratory at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is also the Co-Director of the Hematology-Oncology Clinical ... T...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table listeners! This week we interview Dr. Robbie Goldstein to find out how Mass General Hospital (MGH) in Boston has prepared, and adapted, to a massive influx of patients with COVID-19. Dr. Goldstein is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Infectious Disease physician at MGH. He is also ... The post Episode 9 – COVID-19: Interview with...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This episode we discuss two recently published papers related to COVID-19. 1.       What is the incidence and significance of cardiac injury in patients with COVID-19 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2763524 2.      The clinical course and risk factors for mortality in a multi-centre cohort of inpatients with COVID-19...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This episode, we’re focusing on 2 papers recently released related to COVID-19. 1.       Our first paper provides an overview of the clinical characteristics of a sample of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032 2.       The second paper provides timely data to identify factors associate...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back for another episode of The Rounds Table! This episode Mike and John review 4 papers related to the latest and greatest in cardiovascular medicine. Check it out here: What is the efficacy and safety for using colchicine in myocardial infarction? (00:00 – 04:15) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1912388 Do lower LDL targets improve outcomes for TIA or stroke?...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! For episode 5 we have two very special guests co-hosting. Welcome back to Drs. Kieran Quinn and Emily Hughes. This episode they discuss 4 articles on all things Respirology. Classic rapid fire format, let’s dive right in. Can the β-blocker, metoprolol, be used to prevent COPD exacerbations? (00:00 to 06:48) ... The post Rapid Fire: Respirology...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year Rounds Table Listeners! We’re kicking off 2020 with an episode dedicated to all things Infectious Disease.  Classic Rapid Fire format…4 papers…here we go! Can patients be with gram negative bacteremia be treated safely with shorter courses of antibiotics? (https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/69/7/1091/5237874) (00:20 – 05:22) What is the impact of RSV infections on...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!   For episode 3, we have two very special guests co-hosting. Welcome back to Drs. Amol Verma and Kieran Quinn. This episode, they discuss 4 articles that peaked their interest related to high value care.   Classic Rapid Fire format…4 papers…here we go! Can care guided by patient priorities by associated with ... The post Rapid fire: High Value...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 2 is all about geriatric medicine. Rapid fire format, 4 key papers….enjoy! The post Rapid fire: Geriatric Medicine appeared first on Healthy Debate .

Send us Fan Mail   Rounds Table Listeners, we’ve got some good news for you… the Rounds Table is back! John and I have decided to pick up where Kieran and his excellent team left off; to continue to bring you regular podcasts on the latest and greatest internal medicine research. This reboot wouldn’t be possible without the continued ... The post Surprise! We’re back…and talking all things cardiov...

Send us Fan Mail This week we bring you a very special episode, the final episode of The Rounds Table podcast. This episode is dedicated to honouring the show and its development over the past five seasons. The show has had an incredibly successful past five years – the podcast has reached an international audience and has been downloaded ... The post The Grand Finale of The Rounds Table appeared...

Send us Fan Mail Kieran Quinn, general internist and palliative care physician in Toronto, is joined by Emily Hughes, the producer of the show and soon-to-be Internal Medicine resident at the University of Toronto on this week’s episode of The Rounds Table! Together they are covering canagliflozin and renal outcomes, and quality of life among patients with atrial fibrillation receiving ... The pos...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Fralick and John Fralick, general internists in Toronto, are back on The Rounds Table and they are covering four articles in a rapid-fire style.  They discuss the use of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) up to 9 hours after stroke onset, nonfasting versus fasting lipids and cardiovascular outcomes, the use of dabigatran for stroke prevention, ... The post Fire It Up: Dela...

Send us Fan Mail Christopher Giuliano, clinical pharmacist, is hosting this week’s episode of The Rounds Table alongside Insaf Mohamad, ambulatory care clinical pharmacist in Internal Medicine.  Together they are covering treatment of atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response with magnesium and falls risk with trazadone and benzodiazepines in patients with insomnia. Atrial fibrillation i...

Send us Fan Mail Andre Maddison, General Internal Medicine (GIM) fellow at Western University, is hosting this week’s episode on The Rounds Table alongside his wife, Emily Wilson, family physician in London and adjunct professor at Western University. Together they are covering risk factors, death, and cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and early or delayed ......

Send us Fan Mail Freddy Frost, research fellow in cystic fibrosis in Liverpool, and Alex Pickard, trainee in acute and emergency medicine in South London, are back on The Rounds Table this week. They are covering treatment of paediatric convulsive status epilepticus and the effect of aclidinium bromide on cardiovascular events and exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseas...

Send us Fan Mail Jonathan Gravel, family medicine resident at the University of Toronto and soon-to-be emergency medicine resident, is joined by Max Deschner, a resident in Internal Medicine at Western University.  Together they are covering coronary angiography after cardiac arrest without ST-elevation (COACT trial) and the risk of HIV transmission through condomless sex in serodifferent gay coup...

Send us Fan Mail Kieran Quinn, general internist and palliative care physician in Toronto, is joined by Emily Hughes, the producer of the show and soon-to-be Internal Medicine resident at the University of Toronto on this week’s episode of The Rounds Table! Together they are covering canagliflozin and renal outcomes, and quality of life among patients with atrial fibrillation receiving ... The pos...

Send us Fan Mail Katie Wiskar, fellow in General Internal Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and Kate Shoults, general internist in the Greater Vancouver Area, are joining us on The Rounds Table this week!  They are covering the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and long-term mortality, and vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids and the prevention of cancer ... The post REPLAY:...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Fralick and John Fralick, both general internists in Toronto, are on The Rounds Table this week. In classic fashion, they are covering four articles in a rapid-fire style. They discuss transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in low surgical risk patients, antiplatelet and anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation (AF) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with percutaneous ....

Send us Fan Mail Paxton Bach and Katie Wiskar, general internists in Vancouver, are back this week on The Rounds Table. Together they cover bag-mask ventilation during intubation of adults in intensive care units, and liberal versus conservative oxygen therapy in acutely ill adult patients. In the non-operating room setting, some recommendations regarding rapid-sequence intubation suggest avoiding...

Send us Fan Mail Christopher Giuliano and Sean McConachie, both Internal Medicine clinical pharmacists, host this week’s episode on The Rounds Table.  This week they share articles on peri-procedural bridging in patients with venous thromboembolism and the reversal of factor Xa inhibitors with andexanet alfa. Bridging is commonly performed for interruption of vitamin K antagonists in the peri-proc...

Send us Fan Mail Andre Maddison, fellow in general internal medicine at Western University, is hosting this week’s episode on The Rounds Table alongside Erin Spicer, general internist also at Western University. Together they are covering the effect of an exercise intervention on functional decline in very elderly patients and the mortality benefit associated with outpatient nephrology referrals i...

Send us Fan Mail Jonathan Gravel, epidemiologist and family medicine resident at the University of Toronto, is hosting this week’s episode of The Rounds Table alongside Bradley Kaplansky, academic primary care physician in Toronto and host of podcast Primary Care Spiel.  This week they are covering the efficacy and safety of oral basal insulin versus subcutaneous insulin glargine in ... The post S...